Our Staff

Senior Director of Preservation & Property Management

Lucy Strackhouse

215.607.3494 lstrackhouse@fairmountparkconservancy.org

Lucy Strackhouse serves as the Senior Director of Preservation & Project Management at the Fairmount Park Conservancy. In this role, she oversees all activities regarding the leasing, adaptive reuse, restoration, and conservation of historic buildings within the Fairmount Park system. She previously served for eight years as the Executive Director for the Fairmount Park Historic Preservation Trust. During her tenure at the Trust, some significant projects included the leasing, restoration and adaptive reuse of Ohio House, one of two buildings remaining from the Centennial Exhibition, the leasing of Bathey House for use as a café, and the leasing of Allen’s Lane Art Center. Lucy holds an anthropology degree from Penn State University and a historic preservation certificate from Bucks County Community College.

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